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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Chiles" data-source="post: 7105844" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Phacelia is photo dormant, ie it needs to be buried to germinate. Running a cultivator through it will fairly certainly bury most seeds and obviously help germination but unfortunately as it isn’t frost tolerant you’ll have to count on a frost free winter. If you don’t cultivate it you’ve got to rely on seeds falling on the ground, being washed down a crack and soil being washed over it to cover it enough to be in darkness for it to germinate. If this happens before a frost you’re back into the same scenario as running a cultivator through the soil. For it to successfully re seed you’ll need it to sit on the soil surface and not be washed into the soil until next spring, or at least until it’s cold enough for it not to germinate until the spring. Even then it needs not to get a late frost as that too can nail it. Undoubtedly a small proportion of your shed seed will grow again the next year if all the conditions work out ok but it is at best a very inefficient process. Possibly the most efficient way to get it to regrow is to do a shallow cultivation late next spring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simon Chiles, post: 7105844, member: 1233"] Phacelia is photo dormant, ie it needs to be buried to germinate. Running a cultivator through it will fairly certainly bury most seeds and obviously help germination but unfortunately as it isn’t frost tolerant you’ll have to count on a frost free winter. If you don’t cultivate it you’ve got to rely on seeds falling on the ground, being washed down a crack and soil being washed over it to cover it enough to be in darkness for it to germinate. If this happens before a frost you’re back into the same scenario as running a cultivator through the soil. For it to successfully re seed you’ll need it to sit on the soil surface and not be washed into the soil until next spring, or at least until it’s cold enough for it not to germinate until the spring. Even then it needs not to get a late frost as that too can nail it. Undoubtedly a small proportion of your shed seed will grow again the next year if all the conditions work out ok but it is at best a very inefficient process. Possibly the most efficient way to get it to regrow is to do a shallow cultivation late next spring. [/QUOTE]
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